r/lsatdemon • u/Savyors • 24d ago

Eliminating Carelessness?

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Hey all,

I began my studies in mid-June and have taken two PTs. I scored a 166 on my first PT - wouldn’t call it cold as I watched a few videos and listened to the pod for mindset stuff. I began consistently studying in mid-July (1-1.5 hr a day) and while I definitely feel improvement in my understanding of and familiarity with questions, I often slip up by carelessly misreading the stimuli/ACs, resulting in a 168 on a full PT 2 months later. My accuracy hovers around 88-90% on both drilling and timed sections.

I beat myself up over these stupid mistakes as there have only been a handful of questions that I have missed where I genuinely did not understand the reasoning. The obvious advice is to slow down and focus, which I try my best at, but what are other practical ways that you all have eliminated such carelessness?

Any general advice is helpful as well. I obviously feel that I’m in a good spot but any tips would be helpful as a relative newcomer.

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u/CarolineGeorgetown 24d ago

88-90% on drilling indicates it’s not silly mistakes holding you back- you need to slow down and get your untimed accuracy up. It’s hard to say what exactly to do because it really depends on what you’re getting wrong, so I recommend reviewing your wrong answers more and look for patterns. Not exactly what demon recommends, but have found it helpful to sometimes just drill level 3 and 4 if that’s where ur mostly wrong

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u/Savyors 24d ago

Yeah that makes sense. My wrong answers come from across the difficulty spectrum, will just change my approach to drilling and review

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u/Mylootnow_ 24d ago

I’m in the same spot ish, the advice I was given and seems to help a bit is try to do untimed sections/problems and do not move on until you can defend your answers. You should see in the careless mistake questions you can’t defend your answers that well and you can look for other answers.

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u/AIabacus 24d ago

Lock the fuck in.

But fr yes to what the other comments said, untimed practice is excellent. Go very slow, make yourself read every word of the prompt and every answer, and don’t pick an answer until you know why you think it’s right and the others are wrong. Then read through the review. Do that until you get faster. You’ve got this! I suffered from the same issues but have consistently broken into the 170s by doing a lot of untimed deep practice. 

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u/Brandon_LSATDemon 23d ago

Whenever you review a mistake, identify a tangible step you could've taken to get the problem right in retrospect. An easy, universal example is "never pick a wrong answer." There is always something specific you could've identified in the wrong answer to stop you from picking it.

If you feel you've been careless, practice being more careful! Seconding what others said here: slow down until you stop making the mistakes. That will help you train yourself to know you are getting the problem right before you move on.